Hi, Ive downloaded and flashed Mate to a USB stick using Rufus and Balena Etcher and Mate is not showing up on bootup.
How can i get it to show up so i can trial it?
Thanks.
you may have to change the boot order in your desktop/laptop so that it boots from the usb stick.
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Hello Pavlos,
That was it. I put the usb at the top of the boot list and magic.
It works as it should.
Many thanks to you vre.
Na esai kala.
Try pressing a key when booting (In my Asus mobo is F8) to get a prompt to select booting device. I also use Baleena etcher but never boot goes automatically to the USB port. I have to press this key and then select the pendrive in the USB port.
If this is your the problem (that you expect auto booting)try pressing a key /you may find what key is in the motherboard manual). In my case despite I have set up the bios to search firsty in usb port, I have six pendrives and there's only one that boots up automatically it's an old one of 8 gb. I don't know the reason.
Hello, I have put the USB to the top, and when booting the Mate shows up and i can select. But now i cant find the Windows 10 to boot up as im running dual systems for the first time
When you installed Ubuntu Mate you have replaced the old grub and now you cannot see Windows partition on booting, and you cannot see it because it is not selected by grub on booting.
What you must do is go to supergrub2 website and download an iso and burn it on either a cd or a pendrive with Baleena etcher for instance (I still have and use a pendrive with the first supergrub2 version).
In this website you will also find a video with too many options of playing with grub disk. What I strongly reccomend you is that after booting with supergrub2 disk (you must select the booting device the same way that you did when you installed Ubuntu mate recently) you will boot and see a list of kernels so select the latest Linux kernel (the first shown above) and once you’re inside Ubuntu Mate open a terminal. If you know what is the partition where Linux has been installed follow below commands into terminal:
(if not in the terminal type sudo fdisk -l and you will receive a list of hdd)
In my case Linux has two partitions sda1 and sda2 one for the home partition and the other for the file system.but you might also have only one if you installed Linux in the entire hdd
Then using my example (sda1 and sda2 or simple sda1) type from the same terminal opened provided you have not overwritten Windows Partition with Linux.(it sounds weird to me because Ubuntu installation considers other Operative systems)
sudo grub-install /dev/sda
sudo update-grub
When reboot you will see Windows partition in the grub promt again.
There are a lot of tutorials perhaps clearest than this.
Regards
Ive done it exactly step by step and am only getting 3 options in the Grub. Ubuntu-Ubuntu Advanced-UEFI.
I have 2 partitions.
sydsider66@sydsider66-Satellite-C55t-A:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for sydsider66:
Disk /dev/loop0: 4 KiB, 4096 bytes, 8 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop1: 111.59 MiB, 117014528 bytes, 228544 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop2: 155.36 MiB, 162906112 bytes, 318176 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop3: 110.68 MiB, 116051968 bytes, 226664 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop4: 155.63 MiB, 163188736 bytes, 318728 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop5: 61.89 MiB, 64901120 bytes, 126760 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop6: 248.76 MiB, 260841472 bytes, 509456 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop7: 54.24 MiB, 56872960 bytes, 111080 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/sda: 223.58 GiB, 240065183744 bytes, 468877312 sectors
Disk model: WDC WDS240G2G0A-
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: E1523CAA-A4C5-43DC-B11E-65F4BF7783BA
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
/dev/sda2 1050624 468875263 467824640 223.1G Linux filesystem
GPT PMBR size mismatch (31955 != 15124983) will be corrected by write.
The backup GPT table is not on the end of the device.
Disk /dev/sdb: 7.21 GiB, 7743991808 bytes, 15124984 sectors
Disk model: STORE N GO
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 663D6EDE-3CEF-4C0C-A005-CEBA919E5CCA
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdb1 64 355 292 146K Microsoft basic data
/dev/sdb2 356 6115 5760 2.8M EFI System
/dev/sdb3 6116 31907 25792 12.6M Microsoft basic data
Disk /dev/loop8: 61.83 MiB, 64835584 bytes, 126632 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop9: 242.34 MiB, 254115840 bytes, 496320 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop10: 65.21 MiB, 68378624 bytes, 133552 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop11: 54.22 MiB, 56856576 bytes, 111048 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
sydsider66@sydsider66-Satellite-C55t-A:~$
This part was in red.
GPT PMBR size mismatch (31955 != 15124983) will be corrected by write.
The backup GPT table is not on the end of the device.
It looks like Windows is 10 gone.
Lucky i put everything i could on USB sticks before, as i didnt trust myself with this like 10 years ago, but wanted to get away from microsoft.
I dont think i partitioned it properly when installing the Ubuntu OS.
Thanks.
Sincerely I don't understand why too many partitions. I've never seen nothing called loop. It's out of my knowledge. I got rid of Microsoft in 2006 when I depended on Windows applications that in the first time I managed installing Wine but as time went by I got rid af all windows programs as I found better equivalents in Linux and I forgot for example what a virus was and I feel completely sure to open my bank account inside Linux, In 2008 I bought a motherboard and a processor that were used until 2020 with only 4 gb of ram and I mainly edit photo, something that I could not do with the same processor in Windows . Libreoffice is today equal to Microsoft Office so I'm happy to my independence of Microsoft and compiled programs that are not from open source and that you don't know if they survey your data . If like you said you plan to leave Windows then format entire disk and make a clean installmet of Linux. Nothing better than that.
Regards
Can you paste 'lsblk -fs' much easier to read ... btw, loopX are mountpoints for snaps.